Career development prospect of professional excellent barista

As coffee, one of the three largest drinks in the world, is gradually loved by more and more Chinese consumers, all kinds of coffee culture knowledge begins to be popularized and spread among coffee fans. All kinds of coffee-related stories have been mentioned repeatedly, and they have also brought innovation and progress to China's coffee market from the side, of which the most important change is that now all coffee operators pay more and more attention to the quality of coffee beans and the choice of coffee equipment. On this basis, they are more and more fully aware of the importance of a good barista to the whole cafe.

In the traditional coffee business model, whether the coffee in a cafe is delicious and popular depends to a large extent on what kind of beans the coffee roaster provides. Therefore, the relationship between the coffee shop and the coffee roaster is very close, and even all kinds of equipment in the coffee shop are provided by the roaster. As a barista, you can produce a cup of qualified coffee as long as you follow the operation manual provided by the roaster or machinery and equipment supplier. Nowadays, in addition to having their own preferences for coffee beans, coffee operators also begin to have more choices in machines and equipment, and begin to add more personalized adjustments and proportions when using them, and the brewing methods are also beginning to become rich and colorful. Gone are the days when anyone went to the coffee machine and casually made a cup of coffee.

Today's baristas know far more about coffee than ever before. In the past, baristas who knew how to make qualified milk foam were good enough, but now the requirement for baristas is not only to understand how a cup of coffee will change in taste throughout the service. How to adjust the grinding degree of coffee to get a more perfect taste? And the right time to add milk will bring what kind of taste change and so on. Today's baristas also need to understand the aging process of coffee, different baking characteristics, and the taste effects of beans from different coffee producing areas and different producing areas under different mixing methods. In fact, top baristas are constantly interacting with coffee roasters with their own expertise and personal taste preferences to promote coffee roasters to produce good products of uniform quality. For a coffee operator who pursues personalized experience and ultimate taste, an excellent barista will definitely bring himself value for money.

In the past few years, compared with the tradition of striving to be a cafe owner, the professional barista's career development space has also been greatly expanded. Today, we see more professional baristas enter the training areas of coffee baking, chain stores, restaurants or other food industries, and even become the setters and inheritors of industry standards. With the popularity of the coffee industry, many new roles are springing up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, such as coffee sales, company management, quality control, cup testing, raw bean management and so on. In the future, the professional aspects of coffee catering will have more perfect subdivision.

With the development of the industry, opportunities will be everywhere. This is a golden age for baristas and a golden age for all those who love coffee culture.

Source: Chongqing Brista Coffee West Point College